Police reports confirm that a pregnant woman bit the p3nis of a man who raped her at knife-point in front of her child after giving them a lift near the small town of White River in South Africa's Mpumalanga province.

The woman, who was three months pregnant, was r@ped after being taken into a bush, and ordered not to scream, police added in a statement.

However, she "managed to bite the private part of the man who ran away after the ordeal", police said. This left him with "a severely injured private part", and anyone with information about him should contact the police, the statement added.